K128B. Hare shepherd, ATU 570. .15.-.17.27.-.32.34.

The ruler will give her daughter to someone who can herd (collect, train) hares (squirrels, sheep, poultry, partridges) without loss. The poor young man performs the task with the help of a magic tool. In order to have an excuse to refuse, the ruler's family members try to buy one hare (a magic pipe, etc.) so that the applicant cannot fulfill his promise, but as a result they find themselves in a humiliating situation.

Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Sicilians [ducks], Italians (Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Abruzzo), Bretons [squirrels; hares], French (Provence), Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein, Switzerland, Austria), Frisians, Flemish, Scots, Irish, Hungarians, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda [hares; piglets dance], Novgorod, Yaroslavl), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Pokutye), Belarusians, Poles, Luzhitans, Czechs, Slovaks, Georgians [pigs dancing], Turks, Persians [turkeys], Latvians, Lithuanians, Icelanders, Westerners Sami, Livonian, Finns, Karelians, Setus, Estonians, Swedes, Norwegians, Western Sami, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Udmurts, Khakas.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the king will give his daughter to someone who can herd rabbits; the old woman gives the hero a pipe that makes the rabbits gather; to get the rabbit (and thus prevent the guy fulfill the condition) the maid, the servant, the queen, the princess, the king agree to kiss his ass (meet in him; lift his skirt higher each time); then the king tells him to say a bag of lies; the guy begins to tell us how it happened; the king tells him to be silent, gives his daughter]: Cardigos 2006, No. 570:143-144; the Spaniards (Leon) [the king promises a daughter to someone who can herd a hundred rabbits for a week; the eldest son of a peasant refuses to share food with a woman who has a baby; his rabbits have run away; the same with the middle one; the youngest shared, received a pipe, to the sound of which any animal begins to dance; when the guy meets the condition, the king dressed his daughter as a merchant to try to buy a rabbit from the guy; he agrees to sell only as a "joke"; the princess takes the rabbit, but at the sound the pipes run back; the next day the queen goes the same; the king is the same (which is especially shameful); then the king demands to fill the bag with crooks; the guy begins to talk about what happened; The princess, queen and king are shouting "it's a lie"! bag full; wedding]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 570:582-587; Galicians [story known]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995:587; Catalans (Mallorca included) [the king promises a daughter to someone who will complete difficult tasks, including herding animals without losing; with the help of animals and magic objects, the hero does everything; in conclusion, the king demands to fill the bag with crooks; the hero says how the royal servants acted, and they shout, "That's a lie!" ; the hero gets a princess; {the paraphrase is deliberately devoid of any specifics, but apparently as in other Iberian versions}]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 570:127-128; Sicilians [king calls Muntifiuri to the service; he takes a portrait of his sister with him; the king sees him, wants to marry; M. comes to pick up his sister; the old woman asks to take her ugly daughter with her on the ship; tells his daughter to make a hole to The siren took Sister M.; the liar puts on the beautiful clothes; M. tells the king that her sister has fallen overboard; the king marries the neighbor brought in; she wants to lime M., tells the king that M. can overnight 1 ) build a fountain; a sister appears out of the water, who is held by sirens on a gold chain, promises that the fountain will be ready by morning; 2) plant a blooming garden around (the same); 3) the liar tells her to herd 12 ducks, if they go missing alone in a day, execute; sister shakes pearls and gold from goats, ducks eat it; shout that Sister M. is brighter than the sun; the next morning, the liar hides one duck, says that M. is her lost; M. asks the king to allow him to go ashore for the last time; his sister orders M. to ask him to be buried by the fountain after execution; three nights he goes out to mourn him; tells the king that he cuts off the chain, marries sister M.; the liar's body is cut into pieces, salted in a barrel, put her hand with a ring on the bottom, sent to her mother; she eats, does not let the cat and the dog; when she realizes that it is a daughter, a cat with They rejoice at the dog, otherwise they would comfort it]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 4:21-27; Italians (Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Abruzzo): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 570:136; Italians (Romagna) [ the princess eats an incredible amount of figs; the king promises it to someone who will bring as much as she does not eat; her older brother carries figs, refuses to share it with her neighbor; the princess eats everything; the same with middle brother; the younger one shares generously, he gives a wand: hit the ground and the basket will immediately fill up again; the king demands that 1) the young man go overseas to visit the princess's aunt and invite her to the wedding; the neighbor gives a horn: you have to blow it on the seashore, the aunt will hear and appear; 2) took the ring from the bottom of the sea; neighbor: blow the horn; when you hear the sounds, the fish brought the ring; 3) herd the hares for three days and bring everyone back; they run to the sound of the same horn; by the end of the third day, the princess's aunt came and asked to sell her a hare; the guy sold for 100 crowns; when the horn sounded, the hare came back; same with the princess; with the king himself; 4) fill the bag with truth; neighbor: tell us what happened, the bag will be filled; the king had to give his daughter]: Calvino 1984, No. 47:145-147.

Western Europe. Bretons: Luzel 2016 [the king promises a daughter to the one who will bring the best apples; the older brother carries apples, rude to the old woman, when the basket is opened, snakes crawled out; the same middle brother (toads); both were imprisoned; the younger Tugdual is a hunchback, friendly to the old woman, his apples are the best; the prince, hoping to win, requires an additional challenge: herd squirrels ; that old woman blows the whistle, the squirrels run, in the evening T. brings everyone back; the next day the princess sent a maid; the young man sold one squirrel for money and a kiss; when he whistled, the squirrel returned; the next day the princess herself went - the same; the rival prince went, disguised as a peasant, got a squirrel for 7 injections with an awl in the ass; the awl got stuck, the squirrel ran away, the prince fell off his horse and ran into a sharp stem, died; the princess demands to fill the bag with truths; T. talks about the maid's kiss, tells her to get into the bag; wants to talk about the princess, she tells her to be silent, agrees to go out for T.; wedding; T. brothers released; old woman turned T. into handsome]: 202-212; Orain 1904 [the king promises to give his daughter to the one who brings the best fish; the older brother carries a basket of fish, answers the old woman, whoever lays eggs, chickens fly out of the basket in the presence of the king; the middle one is the same (frogs); the younger woman is polite to the old woman, who makes the fish in the basket especially large; the king is ready to give his daughter, but she does not want to ; the minister proposes to tell the young man to herd 30 birds with one stone for three days; the old woman blows the whistle when the hares come running immediately; dressed as a coal miner, the minister tries to buy one hare; the young man invites him to first slide off the cliff on his own back; the minister is injured but gets a hare; but when the young man whistles, the hare returned to the bag; the next day the king comes dressed peasant; the young man tells him 36 to turn over (the same); for the third time the princess (let him hug him; the same); the minister conveys the princess's new demand: fill the bag with truths; the young man talks about everything what happened; the princess herself says she hugged a young man and marries him]: 9-19; French (Provence) [the king will give his daughter to someone who brings a basket of fresh figs for Christmas; the elder the poor man's son carries dried figs, answers the old woman that he carries horned heads; opens the basket in the presence of the king - it has horned heads; the middle son (there is manure in the basket); the younger responds politely an old woman, fresh figs in a basket; now the king demands that a hundred birds be herded in the mountains for a year and one day; the old woman blew a whistle, at the signal of which the hares gather together; an old woman {another} comes, asks for a hare; the young man agrees if she eats a bunch of crap; she ate half, the young man whistles on the whistle, the hare is back; invites the old woman to finish eating the crap, she leaves; the same with the second old woman (the young man offers to put a garden tool in her ass that makes holes); the third old woman is a hunchback (stick a needle in her hump a hundred times); now the king demands to fill three bags true; the young man comes to those three old women; asks if it is true that one hare ate crap; she replies that it is true that the bag is full; the same with the others (put it in the ass; stab it with needles); the young man got a princess]: Going 1938:292-295; Germans [the royal daughter will recover if she eats an apple; the peasant's eldest son carried apples; the little man asks what he is carrying, the guy replies that frogs; when the basket was opened, there were frogs in it, the guy was driven away; the same with the middle son (pork stubble); the younger Hans and the little man are polite, the princess recovered from the apples he brought; but the king demands 9 boats that would walk on water and on land; older and middle brothers make boats, answer the little man that they were carrying wooden dishes; G. is polite again, sails to the palace in one of the boats; the king demands herd a hundred birds with one stone without loss; the little man gives a horn to the sound of which they resort; the princess sends the maid - let G. give the hare urgently; G. demands that the princess herself come; she comes, gets a hare, he runs back to G.; the king demands a griffin pen; on the way, the owner of one castle asks to know where he lost the key to the chest of money; the inhabitants of the other - how to cure his daughter owner; man by the river - how many more people he can carry to the other side; the griffin's wife tells G. to hide, G. pulled out his pen at night; the griffin's wife says that the Christian really came in and told all sorts of nonsense; then asks questions and the griffin answers; the key is under the threshold outside the door; the toad in the cellar has made a nest out of the girl's hair; the man by the river must throw off the one he carries; G. took out a toad, found the key; seeing that G. was rich, the king himself followed in his footsteps; the man threw him into the river, and G. married the princess]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 185:482-485 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:382-387); Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein, Switzerland, Austria), Flemish, Friesians, Scots, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 570:339-340.

Western Asia. Palestinians [to get a princess, you have to herd wild animals with a magic object; (judging by the list of motives, there are also other difficult tasks); fill a bag with lies; queen and king forced to do something shameful; a woman agrees to be naked to get the items she wants]: Al-Shamy 2004, No. 570:331.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [the tsar promises a daughter to someone who will be able to herd a certain number of hares without loss; with the help of a magic pipe (a certain spell, an assistant animal, etc.), the condition is fulfilled poor young man; to invalidate the contract, the king sends a wife, a minister, under the guise of a buyer, and then goes by himself to buy at least one hare; the guy gives the hare, but for that puts a seal on the buyer's ass; the hare returns; in the end, the king orders to fill the bag with crooks; the guy begins to talk about what happened, but the king interrupts him: there are enough lies; the guy gets a princess]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 570:216; Greeks (Crete) [the poor widow does not have bread for the dervish, he fed her children himself; took one to study; brought him to the mountains, in the rock the door opened, the dervish asked the boy to come in and pick up a lamp; girls play musical instruments in the cave; an hour later the door closed; the boy came to a place where there were bones in front of the horse and in front of the dog hay; put it in places; they say that the dervish is torturing them; let the boy ask the girls for a candle; the horse lit a candle lamp, a lion appeared, asked what was needed; boy: get out of here; lion: take out the board out of the closet, throw it, she will be in the river, sit down and swim downstream; the horse and the dog hit the hair: if burned, they will come to the rescue; when they come somewhere, the boy called the horse and the dog; the horse brought him to his mother, and the dog protected against predators; the boy asked the lion for valuables, who delivered gold and diamonds; in order not to meet the dervish, the family moved to Constantinople; the robbers took gold along the way, but they did not take the lamp; in K. they hired a house from a dervish; the gold taken ended up in the basement of the house, because the dervish was one of the robbers; when the dervish came for payment, the boy, on the advice of the lion, lowered the dog on him and she tore it apart; in the city, the king and the minister agreed to marry the princess with the minister's son; the young man wants to marry her himself; the king demanded slaves, precious clothes, etc.; everything has been delivered; ministers they decided that the young man was of royal blood; but let him still be able to herd 14 birds with one stone without losing; the virgins give a pipe to lure the hares back; the minister changed his clothes so as not to recognize him, came to buy a hare; but the young man I recognized him, sold the hare for three slaps in the face, bought a new one from the hunter; the next day the king himself went - the same; the queen - for a kiss; now the king orders to build a palace - done; now we have to fill three the bag was full of tales; the young man began to tell, he was interrupted - the bags were full; he received a princess]: Kretschmer 1919, No. 34:128-142; Hungarians [King Useless Bochar (BB) - just having fun and drinking in taverns; the king is tired: if BB does not make a huge barrel in a day, puts him on a stake; he goes to the forest, sits down to eat; shares with the fox; she creates a barrel; now the king demands a self-propelled cart; then But; the king orders 300 rabbits to herd so that none would be lost; BB was about to stab himself, but the fox changed the knife with a whistle, the sound of which the hares immediately gathered; the next day, the king asked his daughter get at least one hare from BB; she bought a hare for three kisses, but when he heard the whistle, he ran back to BB; the same with the queen; the same with the king: 24 blows to the back with a stick; the next day, the king tells me to fill three bags with the truth; BB begins to tell you what he had with the princess, queen and king; the king interrupts him every time and says the bag is full; BB married the princess and got throne]: Curtin 1890:424-433; Slovenes, Macedonians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 570:340.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Novgorod, Yaroslavl), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Pokutye), Belarusians [Hare Shepherd: Tsar promises to give his daughter off as someone who will cope with the duties of a hare shepherd; the hero (the youngest of three brothers) collects hares with the help of a wonderful pipe and gets the princess's hand]: SUS 1979, No. 570:164; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [K The master, the father of three daughters, comes to beg, the master feels sorry for him and hires him: herd hares. Well done, he can't catch the rabbits that have run away. The old man gives the pipe, the hares run to its sound. It seems unprofitable for the master to pay a good job, he decides to punish him in some way. She sends her daughter to buy a hare, she goes to bed with the shepherd and pays a hundred rubles, he gives the hare. When the pipe sounds, the hare runs away from the girl. The same thing happens with the second, third sister and lady (each next one gives more money). The master goes to buy a hare, the shepherd offers to kiss the horse's ass, the master agrees, but at the sound of the pipe, the hare returns again. The master and his wife came up with the idea that the shepherd would tell stories and put them in a bag. When he starts talking, the guy shames his sisters, then his lady, they all run out of the house. When he talks about his master, he tells him to end the fairy tales and runs away. The lady offers to leave the shepherd, who hides in the cover of the stroller, reminds him that the master did not pay him. At the station, he rushes to the master, who gives all the money]: Onchukov 1917, No. 103:249-251; Russians (Vologodskaya) [the soldier aloud wished to spend the night with the princess; the tsar promises to execute him if he does not will be able to herd 12 birds with one stone all summer and bring the herd safe in autumn; the hares have scattered; in the forest the old man gave a violin: the hares will run to its sound; when he learns that the hares are with the soldier, the king decided them buy; to the king, then to the prince, refused to sell the soldier; the princess came; the soldier agrees, but only if she lies with him; the princess is gone; in the fall the king offers an additional task: to tell three bags of fairy tales ; the soldier tells how the tsar, prince and princess tried to buy hares from him; tsar: the bags are full; the people told the king to get out, the soldier married the princess and became tsar]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 61:153-156; Russians (Vologda) [turnips do not grow; old man: to bad things and turnips; turnips have grown, the bad one has come to pull it, he does not give it; the eldest goes, then the middle son is the same; the youngest splits the stump, suggests that a bad person get a trap (?) , knocks out a wedge; let go for promising to bring money, a pipe and a pig with piglets; Ivan plays, a pig and piglets dance; the princess wants to buy them; I. gives the first pig for being a princess she raised her dress to her knees; then to her navel; to her breasts; she has silver and gold hair under her breasts; the king will give it to someone who knows the signs; I. and the general's son both know; she was put to sleep between them: to who would turn around; I. pretended to give a damn on the window, and then ate it; the general's son really repeated; he stinks, the princess turned to I.; the king gave his daughter to a fool, he grabbed the king's mind]: Novichkova 2003, No. 6:431-433; the Poles [the king promises a daughter to someone who will be able to herd a herd of hares (goats) without loss; two older brothers are rude to the old woman, fail; the youngest shares food with her, receives a magic pipe, to the sound of which the hares run; the queen, the queen, the king himself try to buy a hare or a pipe; the guy agrees in exchange for a kiss or a night, and from the king to kiss the horse down the drain; the king demands to fill the bag with lies; stops the guy during his story, gives his daughter]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 570:189-190; Czechs, Slovaks, Luzhitans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 570:340.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians (Kartli) [the sorcerer gives the young man a pipe that makes the animals dance; the young man has bought pigs, they dance; to see this, the princess becomes more and more naked in front of the young man; The king promises a daughter to whoever tells her bodily signs; the young man fulfills the condition and marries a princess]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 570:567; Turks [the fisherman saw the princess bathe; she fell in love with him; the padishah is ready to give his daughter if the applicant knows the signs on her body; the vizier wants to marry his son's princess and advises the applicant to set a condition: 40 days to herd 40 hares; the fisherman is it is possible thanks to the pipe given by the mother; the vizier's son, then the vizier himself, and then the padishah try to steal, replace or buy the pipe; he stamps their ass, {and the pipe returns}; fisherman must say a bag of lies and a bag of truth; a blindfolded and naked princess must choose her fiance in the pool; the fisherman takes something fragrant in her mouth, and the vizier's son is smeared crap so the princess chose a fisherman]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 232 IV: 279; (cf. Ossetians; the reference in Uther 2004 to the Byzyrov 1958 index is wrong; No. 112 in this index is indeed compared to ATU 570, but the text itself is to a completely different story).

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [Pleshivets's mother is saving up yarn, and he secretly sold it, bought dice and lost everything; the old woman kicked him out, agreeing to give the last skein; Bald won a little, bought a hoe and a skein of rope to live selling thorn and brushwood; went with the merchants; the ruler will give his daughter to someone who cuts the deck with one blow; bought chicken three times and carried it away three times by a falcon; bald: let him go to his health; the same is the crumbs from the cake to the ants; for this they agreed to exude the deck in dust; the bald man cut; the ruler: feed 40 rams, but so that their weight does not change; bald man planted a wolf cub to frighten the sheep, they began to lose as much weight as they gained on juicy grass; then: herd 40 turkeys without loss; the daughter of the vakila, the daughter of the vizier and the daughter of the ruler herself come and ask one turkey; the bald man gives after each agrees to lie down with him; each time that grateful falcon takes the turkey and returns it to the bald man; the last requirement is to tell the story so that at the end her barn with nuts was empty; Bald begins to tell the whole story of turkeys, after each sentence saying, "Throw the nut as a souvenir!" ; the ruler asks not to prove, Plesivets received three wives]: Osmanov 1987:82-90.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets are eaten by a mare; each gives birth to a son, the mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; in the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night he was nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, not they see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: he killed our husbands; let him alone the wife will become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not allow her to lie down, drink, cuts a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door there, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off a feature of the head; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak water instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with hail; K. killed the ogre, poted the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. reveals eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9th head must be killed; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged for K. the horse to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell with the worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from the back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell I have to answer that not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings by the shirt, and the hell ate his pound, with his stomach bad; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream instead of himself for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and mother run away to the witch , K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the hell drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre himself]: Nierde 1952:116-146; Karelians [the girl became pregnant, gave birth to a son, he grew up, served in the army, went to see the king; he gave him money and good clothes; passing by the merchant's house, he saw his daughter, promised to dishonor; the merchant tells him to herd a hundred birds with one stone without rubbing, otherwise he executes; the old man in the forest gave a pipe to lure hares; the same the second day; on the third, the merchant's daughter came to buy one hare; the soldier gave the hare, for which the girl gave herself to him and paid him a hundred rubles; the hare returned to the soldier to the sound of a pipe; the same with the eldest daughter (200 rubles); with a merchant (300 rubles); with a merchant (600 rubles "and you will process the mare"); the merchant demands a full bag of fairy tales from the soldier; he tells everything; when he wants to tell about the merchant himself, that the bag was full; gave the soldier money and three horses to go away]: Konkka, Tupitsyna 1967, No. 26:225-231; Finns, Livons, Lithuanians, Icelanders: Uther 2004 (1), No. 570: 339-340; Seto [the king promises a daughter and a throne to whoever makes a ship sailing on and under water, flying by air, traveling by land; an old man makes such a ship for the son of a poor widow; when they they fly through the air, on the way a tree with a crow's nest; the raven asks not to touch it, gives a golden pipe that fulfills any wishes; the king praises the ship, but does not want to give his daughter to the poor man, gives new tasks; 1) by evening, collect and bring a cart of spruce cones (kusikulas); 2) collect released hares: 3) black grouse; with the help of a pipe, the young man does everything; at the wedding, the tsar puts the barrel, in which the guests must say the truth; whoever fills the barrel with truth, the king will give it filled with gold and silver; when the young son-in-law begins to speak, telling his whole story, the king asks him stop, says the barrel is full; son-in-law gets a barrel of gold]: Sandra 2004:101-110; Estonians (Yuri) [whoever cuts down an oak tree in his garden in a day, the king promises a daughter, and whoever does not have time, the backs would cut out the belts; the older brother went, cut down more than in the middle; the princess came up with lunch; when the guy was about to finish the job, saw that the gun was intact again; came back with his back torn off; same middle brother; younger Burak took a pipe with him; on the way he saw an ax chopping, commanded him to "Get into the bag!" ; the same with a shovel; with a whip; the ax cut down the oak tree himself; the king ordered to dig a well by morning, dug a shovel; ordered the hares to herd and return them safe by evening; the guy plays the pipe, hares they gather; the king sends his daughter to buy one hare; she paid in gold; the boy played the pipe, the hare is back; the same with the second daughter; with the king himself; each time the pay is higher; the king promised to give his daughter , but first told the guy to spend the night in a room with the bear; the bear demands to shave him; the guy asks to put his paws in the crack of the log first; you can't pull out his paws, the guy whipped the bear, he tore him off all the wool; the king let the boy and daughter go, then sent the bear to lift both; the guy stripped the princess, showed the bear; the bear came back and told the king that those as naked as himself, he was nothing can't against them]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 87:296-298; Western Sami (apparently the text referred to in Qvigstad 1925, No. 570:21; then it's Norbotten) [the king promises a reward and a daughter who will be able to herd hares without loss; the old woman has such a long nose that a hundred years ago he was stuck in a stump, she cannot pull it out; two older brothers go to herd hares, refuse to help old woman; the hares ran away, the brothers were kicked out; the youngest freed her nose, she let the flute lure the hares; after learning about the flute, the princess, then the Queen Mother, then the king himself tries to buy it from the young man, but he does not sell; the king agrees to kiss the horse on the tail, but the horse is not given; the king is disgraced, gives the young man the promised reward and daughter, but tells him to get out quickly; they have come to that old woman; the old woman offered to live with her; led to a beautiful home, and there were fat pastures, cows and sheep around; everything is fine]: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 12:85-96; Swedes [three brothers go to the king, who promised a daughter to someone who will be able to herd hares (partridges); only the youngest gets a pipe (bird) to whose voice rabbits gather; princess, queen, king buy a pipe (or hare), agreeing to do so for something indecent, but the pipe (hare) returns to the guy every time; in the end, the guy "fills the bag with crooks", describing what happened; he is stopped and given to the princess]: Liungman 1961, No. 570:176- 177; Norwegians [the king will give his daughter to someone who can herd his hares (rabbits, sheep) without losing; the youngest of three brothers succeeds in this, who has received a magic pipe from a grateful old ladies; each member of the royal family tries to buy a pipe and is forced to do something indecent to do so; in the end, the king demands to say a vat of untruth; the guy begins to tell, king ( Queen) tells him to be silent, gives his daughter]: Hodne 1984, No. 570:137-139.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Eisin 1993:89-96 [], 190-197 []; Komi [the childless king asks God for a son; the man gave him cabbage, his wife ate it and became pregnant; Ivan Tsarevich grew up quickly; the king died and his wife was a witch; I. gives bread to a hungry wolf, meat to a bear; shoved a pike on the shore into the water; mother tells I. to herd pigs, if there is no one in the evening, she will kill them; the pigs have run away, their wolf collected; the horse warns I. that his mother will try to poison him; he gave food to the cat, she died; the mother tells me to herd the sheep (the bear collected it); the mother again gives poison (the same); the mother tells them to herd cows, they rushed into the sea (the pike gathered); Ivan's horse: your mother took a three-headed line as her lover; the horse teaches you to hit the cross on the iron gate with a special stick; they opened; so 6 the gate, and the seventh was broken by the horse himself; followed by Father Ivan's sword and armor; the horse gives a drink of strong wine; they galloped; the horse flies below the cloud, above the forest; in the city, a three-headed devil comes out of the sea, every day to him it is necessary to give a person to eat; Princess Elena's turn; her bones are visible through meat and brain through bones; I. asks E. to look in his head, falls asleep; E. dropped a tear, I. cut off the head of the one who came out of the sea line; the same on the second day (6-headed line); on the third (9-headed); I. hid his heads under a heavy stone; I. injured his right hand, E. tied her with his handkerchief; I. received E., came with her to his kingdom, cut off the heads of a three-headed line, the mother, taking her legs, tore it in half; they must still be alive and reigning]: Fokos-Fuchs 1915, No. 6:84-99; (cf. Marie (meadow) [when dying, father tells Ivan to pass off three sisters as the first to marry them; they are taken by Raven, Kite, Hawk; I. finds a portrait of Maria Marievna in his father's chest, goes to look for her; comes to see her first sister; her husband arrives, sits on three oaks, they go into the ground, he turns into a man; gives him a magic towel, I. leaves his ring, if it turns black, he is in trouble; the same with two other sons-in-law; the Kite gives a magic tablecloth, the Hawk gives a ring; teaches to feed the captured MM suitors first, she keeps them like pigs; locked with his suitors, I. opens a magic towel, all feast; gives it to MM for permission to touch her breasts; tablecloth for permission to touch her hair; ring: MM lies on the bed, I. kisses her {presumably not only}; MM keeps I. at home; MM goes to war, leaves the keys, allows the grooms to be released, forbids unlocking one door with 12 keys; I. unlocks, there is a 12-headed dragon on chains; asks for a bottle of green water; drinks, breaks chains , flies away, takes MM, giving I. three lives; I. arrives, takes MM, the horse answers the dragon that we will have time to sow rye, make beer, drink it, then we will catch up; the dragon catches up, takes one life (century) and MM; so three times; the fourth time the dragon kills I., lowers him into the sea in a barrel; the rings of the Raven, Kite, Hawk have turned black; the Hawk finds a barrel, splices pieces of I.'s body, the Raven revives him with living water; The hawk tells MM to find out from the dragon where he got such a fast horse; brings him to MM; I. overhears how the dragon explains: he herds 300 horses of Yagi Lamb; MM gives I. a tablecloth to make bridge across the sea; I. is a good shepherd, daughters Y. persuade her mother to give I. a horse; I. takes MM away again, I.'s horse tells his brother to throw off the dragon, he dies, MM sits on his horse; wedding, I. ]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 9:160-169); Kazan Tatars [the poor man was hired to work under a contract; the owner orders to herd 40 birds with one stone for a year; the old man gives a piece of wood, makes 40 notches if get around, the hares will run away; the owner tells the haystack to be dragged along a blade of grass; the old man tells the ant padishah to do so; the owner's daughter offers to run; they become a mosque and a muezzin; a lake and frog; father could not drink the lake, stopped chasing]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 3:38-42; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 56 [the whirlwind consistently takes away Tsar Garif's three daughters; his son Ahmet sees in a beautiful dream, goes to look for her, consistently stops with the devas, the husbands of the sisters; one of them is the owner of birds, the other is animals, the third is water creatures; everyone gives a magic handkerchief; Lena the Beautiful ( LP) sends A. to prison, where those who came to marry her are sitting; agrees with A. that he will marry him if four warriors cannot hold him and he kisses her; A. loses twice, gives him each time LP is one of the headscarves; the third time he kisses, marries; finds the deva Kasim Batyr behind the locked door, gives him a drink, he gives A. 150 years of life twice, flies away, takes LP away; A. takes LP three times, K. each once catches up, first takes away their gifts, then kills A.; devas-sons-in-law find out about this when they see blood in the tube left by A.; they look for a doctor, only a lame frog pulls out living and dead water, revives A.; LP A. hides, stabs the girl, tells Kasim that she is crying, wanting to know where he got the six-winged stallion, where K.'s soul is hidden; K. answers, A. listens; first K. says that his soul is in a ram, in a broom, LP adorns them; A. spares the wolf, hawk, anthill, pike, cat; the cat distracts the dogs of an old woman who owns mares; K. took out her 6-winged horse; the old woman tells the mares to herd, they they scatter, turning into foxes, pigeons, fish; wolf, hawk, pike bring them back; the old woman scatters and tells them to collect poppy seeds, ants collect, the cat pulls out what they swallowed with the mouse; A. chooses to paying a thin foal is a 12-winged horse; he carries A. to the island; on the way, A. takes a saw from the devils; cuts down a poplar on the island, pulls out a chest from under it, kills a duck that has flown out of it, takes it from she has three eggs, K.'s soul in them; kills K., returns home with LP]: 389-402; 1989, No. 42 [the young man is hired by a girl; she forbids unlocking one of the rooms; there is a dev asking for bread, water; the young man gives , the girl returns when the devil breaks the last chains, goes to bed; first replies that his soul is in a pole, in a broom in the bath; the girl tells me to bring them; dev admits that in two pigeon eggs in a box at the bottom of the lake, a spider weaved a web over them; the young man goes to search, saves a bear, a wolf, bees on the way; he is hired to herd the sorcerer's horses; horses run away, a bear, a wolf, their bees each they collect it once; the poor horse tells you to ask for him as a reward; the horse dives, the lake is covered in blood, the young man pulls it out; the next time the water turns white, the horse takes out a box from the bottom; the young man breaks eggs against the deva's body, takes a girl as a wife]: 194-198; Udmurts [the landowner caught a copper man in the field, locked him in a barn; he saw the landowner's adopted son through the window, persuaded him to release him; the landowner drove him away; the young man hired another, got together with his daughter; he tells him to herd hares, promises to kill if even one runs away; the copper man gives a magic handkerchief, collects hares with it; then fills bag in sheep tongues; gets the landowner's daughter]: Kralina 1960, No. 54:146-148.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [Kresen began to serve, was appointed police officer, then chief governor-general; 9 others are jealous, write to the king that K. wants to marry the royal daughter and become king himself; the tsar orders After 6 days, bring his truth, otherwise he executes; K. treats an old man in a tavern, he gives a dove, tells him to follow him; the dove leads to the boat; on the other side of the hut with a clean upper room, the table is laid; K. ate, drank, hid; a man came and shouted, "Aas!" , a soldier appears, sets the table; in the morning K. calls A. himself; he says that he serves the owner of the water and the owner of the mountain; agrees to go with K., although invisible; K. asks A. to feed people from a hungry ship, which Polamor Khan; P. proposes to change A. to a gun in which a thousand warriors (they fly out in flies, then turn into warriors); A. orders to agree - he will return anyway; K. feeds all the king's people; he orders to herd 12 birds with one stone; the same poor old man gives a pipe; the governor-general in disguise asks to sell the hare, K. gives the severed little finger for money; plays the pipe, the hare returns; the same with the royal son; with the royal wife {it would be logical that the daughter, not the wife}; K. gives her the 13th hare, who is not marked, takes her ring and promises to marry him; the king orders to bring 3 bags of truth; K.: the severed finger of the Governor-General; the king's son; the ring of the king's wife; K. summons warriors with a gun; marries, becomes king himself]: Balter 1986:126-137.

Western Siberia. Muncie [someone ruins the turnip garden; the father tells three sons to guard; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the youngest grabs the Copper Man (MCH); he tells the horse to go home and tell the sisters that brother is in trouble; father and sons send news to the tsar, he pays 300 rubles for turnips, puts MCH in prison; the royal son Vanya fired an arrow from a toy bow, it fell on the roof of the prison; MCH teaches: roar and stomp with your feet, you will be offered different things, calm down when they give you a bunch of keys; open the prison, I'll get you an arrow; once free, MCH promises to help the boy when necessary; disappears; the neighboring kings who came to see the MCH are dissatisfied; decide to give V. the coachman and expel him from the state; the coachman is Uncle Senpalt; V. wants to drink, S. lowers him into the well; promises to raise him if V. agrees with he will change roles and names and sign his blood; now S. rides in a carriage, and V. is a coachman; they come to another king, the imaginary prince asks to give his daughter; Tsar: feed 30 stallions for three days and three nights; imaginary prince: my uncle S. will herd; V. calls MCH, he takes him to his place, his older sister gives him a handkerchief (wave - dancers, musicians, food); then back, MCH gathers horses, 60 of them; the same on the next day (the middle sister gives a box, people come out and ask for work; 90 horses); on the third day (the younger sister gives an egg (it contains food, drinks, dancers, warriors); MCH - Hiiro horse and sword; horses 120); the princess sees this, understands that the shepherd is a real prince, not S.; S. demands a wedding the next day; the three-headed devil demands that the princess be given to him; V. kills him, S. says he killed; the same with 6- and 9- head line; the princess bandaged the wound, then sees her handkerchief on the hand of an imaginary shepherd; at the wedding, the princess showed the second half of the handkerchief; S. was driven away, V. took the princess and inherited the kingdom]: Kannisto 1956:154-176 in Kippar 2002:212-228.